What do you think about the idea of knowing when you will die?

[Snowhite189]

The idea is there knowing the date of your passing, you get yourself prepared you go to church most hours of the day and ask forgiveness and the remaining hours is you spend it with your loved ones, and it never came out naturally and do you know the effect it will cause you, the agitate feeling of counting the years, the days and the hours and that i think that God never want us to experience, yes we are just visitors here on earth but it will never be a sin to enjoy our stay here provided that we always remember that all these things that we have right now are gift from God, never ever take it for granted and we should always be grateful.

[PlanetHauth]

On one hand, it's terrifying to me to think about knowing when I'll die. I've started struggling with my own mortality recently, particularly at my birthdays, and I already feel like I have such little time on this Earth to become something and accomplish things I can be proud of. On the other hand, though, knowing when I'm going to die could potentially help me organize myself more so I can accomplish the things I want beforehand. Of course, I could also succumb to the pressure of it all and not manage to do anything at all. Plus, knowing when someone is going to do could make it easier for people who are actively dying from illnesses. For example, my grandmother is currently under at-home hospice care, receiving morphine every two hours, and supposed to pass away any day now due to lung cancer. And what are we, the family, doing? Sitting and waiting and wondering and praying it ends soon so she can finally be comfortable. If we knew when she was supposed to pass away, I think it'd be easier on us. It'd be easier on me, living in Japan and unable to be there for my family. I'm dreading that text saying it's over. It's emotionally draining.

I think if scientists do ever learn how to predict, accurately, someone's end, then they could announce it and allow those who want to know their death date to learn it. It should be an option, always. Those who don't want to know shouldn't be forced into learning it. I think it's greatest benefit could come from using it on terminally ill and actively dying folks, like I've said above.

[Mildred Tabitha]

The idea of knowing when you will die is not a good idea to me. I won't want to know when I will die or what is in store for me in the future. I have seen doctors making this mistake of telling a patient when they will die especially if the illness is untreatable.

I think scientists can and might soon have the knowledge of how to predict someone's death. But even if they do get this information, I think they shouldn't let the information out.

[Misshapencha0s]

The idea of death used to terrify me, sometimes it still causes anxiety attacks late at night, but I’ve come to accept that one day, all of us, and everyone who has ever lived, or will live, will eventually die. However, knowing when I would die is another story. I don’t want to know when, how, why, when, or where. I want it to be a random thing that I won’t anticipate. What fun would it be to countdown the days until your own death?

[jo89220n]

I don't think I would want to know. I think it would be amazing if science could know these things and if people had the option, but I think my quality of life would be worse if I knew exactly how much time I had left. Some of my favorite memories have been spontaneous and if I knew exactly how many days of life I had left, I would never do anything for the sake of maybe not having another chance. In the least cliche way possible, you only live once. I wouldn't want to spend that life thinking about when I will die. The only situation where I think I would want to know is if I were sick. For instance, if I had cancer and a week to live, I would spend it differently than if I had a year to live. For the most part, I think it's nice in theory, but I ultimately wouldn't want to know.

[Cate Mbevi]

When I am 100 years, I would really love to know when I will die but not before that. Also, I would like to know it from divine revelation not from science.

[OKARONI JANET]

The idea on one hand is terrifying and on the other a relief.Its terrifying in away that you will have to live knowing such date and time you will be no more.how sad! Leaving your family and friends behind and not being able to see them ever again is not that easy.
Its a relief on the other hand since one will be able to repent on hi or her sins,makeup with who wronged you and vise versa.You will have enough time to plan on your future and those of your kids if possible.

[Prof_Reginald_Eke]

its a complicated question really but the reality is that when you have a short time to live, you will take life easy and cool,living better life, avoiding crisis due to the state of your troubled heart and mind that you will soon go.

[love_b00ks]

Having this knowledge will teach us to number our days and therefore learn to act wiser knowing only up to when we will last. I have seen and read testimonies of people who started doing something good after being informed about a terminal illness, of how many years or months they have left to live. Imagine if everyone knows that, I think we would not be wasting so much time on useless stuffs because most people would like to live a lasting legacy.

[Crazybud]

My feelings are summarised in the statement
"Knowledge bred incidence even as it protected us from incidence."
- (a personal quote from me)

Knowing allows us to shield against known dangers but the mere act of knowing creates even more dangers. This is why Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden after they ate of the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Because they knew, they could sin. If i am colour-blind and I say red is green, have I told a lie? No. Why? Because I do not know.
Knowing changes things. However, I think the message of this book is not to fear knowledge but to be aware that all knowledge is a two sided sword- it can protect but it can also harm- and to guard accordingly.

This is exactly true! Knowing something doesn't exactly let you prevent it, but rather to be cautioned. And yet it doesn't change the fact that what is going to happen, will happen, whether you know it or not.

Would Adam and Eve have had tried the fruit, it they had not known it was evil? Yes, indeed they would've. But the knowledge of the evil in the fruit only prompted them to do it earlier. In case of death however, the knowledge might even make it earlier due to immoral mistakes.

[cianarae]

This is such a hard question!

I think there are positives and negatives to this. Positives: You would be able to plan your life around it. For example, if I knew I was going to die at 22, I might just skip college and travel the world instead. Death probably wouldn't be seen as such a sad event anymore. Negatives: It would probably be really depressing to know your death day was coming up. I might get jealous of others who get to live longer lives than me. I also don't think our current world is set up for this. What I mean by that is that someone could just go into a ton of debt to do whatever they want before they die, and then just ... Well, die.

I think if scientists figured this out, we'd have to make some serious changes to our world before it would be ethical to release that information!

[Lgs1089]

I think knowing when you are going to die doesn't change much of anything. We all know we are dying at some point. Why should it matter when it will happen? There's this entire notion that if we know when we will die, for some reason that will change how we live. Well, we are all dying anyway, and I'd rather not know, and live my life the way I was intended, without regard to the expiration date.

[Crazybud]

I think knowing when you are going to die doesn't change much of anything. We all know we are dying at some point. Why should it matter when it will happen? There's this entire notion that if we know when we will die, for some reason that will change how we live. Well, we are all dying anyway, and I'd rather not know, and live my life the way I was intended, without regard to the expiration date.

Every human being would die eventually, it is an universal statement. And yet, if we discover that we are going to die tomorrow, wouldn't we live our last day differently? In my opinion, for an average person, the knowledge of the date and time of their death would certainly change their whole perspective on life.

[kollygold]

Nobody knows when he dies, that's why he enjoy most time being alive because he does not know when he will pass out.

[AmySmiles]

I would be so worried about my death that I couldn't enjoy the time I did have left. I know it seems like a nice idea that you could accomplish things on your bucket list that you've always wanted to do. There are so many issue this would cause though. Run up bills that you know you won't have to pay etc. It is a fun topic to ponder though, but I think if I had the choice I wouldn't want to know.